According to Matthew, the whole grand experiment hangs on what happens with Joseph... The child is Joseph's until he says otherwise...the issue at stake is not a biological one but a legal one... Will he believe the impossible and give it a home or will he stick with...
There is no sense of absence where there has been no sense of presence. What makes absence hurt, what makes it ache, is the memory of what used to be there but is no longer. Absence is the arm flung across the bed in the middle of the night, the empty space where a...
I like to think that silence was not only one of the best gifts we had to offer but also one of the signs that the Holy Spirit had come among us. from Leaving Church
New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark. from Learning to Walk in the Dark
People who are shouting at each other are incapable of seeing the image of God in one another.
To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up. To want a life with only half of these things in it is to want half a life, shutting the other half away where it will not...
Ask anyone what she means when she says, ‘God,’ and chances are you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Once you have given up knowing who is right, it is easy to see neighbors everywhere you look.
Whether death comes from cancer or tsunami, grief is a language everyone speaks.